Diablo III is “possible” on consoles, as Activision eyes money

According to Activision Blizzard, a console version of Diablo III is " …

While the Internet may be up in arms over the fact that Blizzard has dared to use a few splashes of color in the design of Diablo III, the rest of the civilized world is just looking forward to playing the damn thing. As we know though, Blizzard is now a part of Activision, and since the newly-united mega-publisher is now too big for even the ESA, will Diablo III be PC-only?

With a controller, a headset, and playing over Xbox Live or the PlayStation Network? Maybe

"It would have some control changes that I think you'd have to make... But it's probably, of our major franchises, the one that's most console friendly, for sure... You'd need to think about a lot of the point-and-click spells, like point to area-of-effect, or things like line-damage in this direction," Pardo elaborated. "Target selection is something you're going to lose on console, you're really going to be able to do targeting direction, but not specific targeting."

Why the focus on Diablo III? "Out of StarCraft, WarCraft or WOW, Diablo would be the easiest game to translate. But it would still take a bit of work."

The first Diablo was brought to the PlayStation back in the day, so this wouldn't be the first time the series traveled to console land.